Who Speaks For The American Worker?

Who Speaks For Working Men and Women?

 

            .So-called Illegal Immigration is having a direct impact on American skilled and unskilled labor that is rarely discussed. All we ever hear about is the wonderful people who have violated our laws by simply coming to American with the intention of taking American jobs and cranking out "anchor babies" in order to further circumvent Immigration law and stay here.

            With full intent, these criminals hurry to have babies so that they may pervert our Constitution by claiming that they cannot be removed because their children are American citizens due to the fact their children were born on American soil. And what civilized person wants to separate a Mother from her baby? This practice is beyond disgraceful, and yet, foolish people condone such horrible activity.

            We all have heard over and over the complete nonsense that the criminals who cross our borders in violation of our laws are only here because they will do the jobs that Americans won't do.

            Here is the truth that remains unspoken during the so-called "Illegal Immigration" debate. I will use roofing as an example, but there are many other work areas that have typically used American skilled and unskilled labor that have supported American families in the past. Many of these other work area could be used as examples as well.

            Here is how it really works. Roofing contractors using American citizen labor have been roofing American homes for ages by paying American workers a wage that can support an American living in America. Undocumented workers approach the roofing contractor and offer to work on the roofs for a fraction of the wage paid to the American worker. Most legitimate contractors say no, but as usual, there are some contractors who jumped at the opportunity to make a huge profit by undercutting other contractors paying American wagers to American workers. Needless to say, soon the contactors employing undocumented workers were getting all of the roofing business, so reluctantly, the honest contractors had to hire illegal undocumented workers as well in order to remain in business.

            What this really means is that American skilled and unskilled roofers, that once upon a time, were able to make a living doing roofing no longer have a job. That is, they don't have a job unless they are wiling to work for undocumented wages that will not support an American family.

            Who speaks for the skilled and unskilled American works displaced by illegal workers? Who indeed. 

           

 

 

 

 

Words

Sticks and stones can break my bones,
But words can really hurt me.

Words are so being used today to mislead, misinform, and in general, words are being used in a deliberate manner to shape opinion. Here are a few:

Illegal Immigration. Immigration is the process where a potential immigrant complies with the law and becomes a citizen. You cannot be an immigrant if you simply entered the country with the intent of staying and becomming a resident, you are instead, a criminal, not an Immigrant, illegal or otherwise.

Liberals are called liberals because they are liberal with other people's freedoms, money and property. Liberals are not liberal with their own freedoms, money and property.

Conservatives are called conservatives because they try to keep what they have earned.

Conserative are not knuckle-dragging mean people who are not concerned with other peoples welfare.

 

Education reform. Usually menaing more money is shoveled into the educational system (teachers, administrators, buildings, ect.) when history has shown that more money does not equal more education, usually the reverse. Reform can only come when there is a culture for learning in the children to be educated.

 

The USA is a Democracy. The USA is a democratic Republic, and was never intented to embrace "one man, one vote" of a pure democracy.

We Patriots Shall Fight

Our country is in peril by the choking indifference of it's once proud, independent and freedom loving citizens. Our cherished institutions lay in waste, our Constitution has been shredded by idiot savants, productive workers iddled by the narcotic of entittlement, dark age savages attack us with impuntity. Patriots must feel as if we have been backed-up to our Dunkirk with no where to go.

Let us rally once again to the words  Winston Churchill:



"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail……….We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender."

The Gun Problem

The Gun Problem

 

On 14 December 2012, in the town of Newtown Conn., a monster walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School with a modern weapon. The monster, with game-like precision, killed 20 innocent children and 4 ill-fated adults. The country was not only stunned, people were sickened and outraged. The President, also expressing outrage, quickly gathered his advisers, and with swift action, assessed the blame of the senseless massacre on the easy availability of modern guns. The President said Guns are the problem and more laws restricting guns will address the problem of innocent children being gunned down in the future.

            The new laws will make getting modern weapons, with high fire rate and capacity capability, much more difficult by citizens, thereby assigning a much needed measure of protection to our children from monsters with guns. Most people agree. Unfortunately, the law will also affect the 99.9% of the citizens who keep and bear arms as a Constitutional right and would never consider using their guns to gun down children. However, all responsible and reasonable citizens will recognize the need to limit some Constitutional freedoms in order to protect our children.

            Twenty innocent children being murdered is so painful that clearly more needs to be done to protect our children. Who could not agree? It may come as a surprise to some, but according to Government records (https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/fatality.pdf) over 1,560 children died from abuse or neglect in the year 2010. Experts in the field of Child Abuse say that the 1,560 murdered children is only the number reported. It is estimated that another 50% of murdered children is never reported. What makes this statistic so sickening is that the children who died from abuse and neglect, were killed by people in charge of their care, and the killing was much more horrible and terrifying than the antiseptic killings in Sandy Hook. Beating, shaking, drowning, stabbing, etc. is just some of the ways monsters kill our innocent children, each and every day.

            The President should address this horrific problem in the same manner he is addressing the Gun Problem. The problem with abused children being killed is that irresponsible people are in charge of the care of our children. The problem is irresponsible care givers, so the solution will be to enact laws that will establish a board of knowledgeable people that will require people, who wish to have children, to obtain a Government license to have children. The board will identify irresponsible people who will be most likely to abuse and kill their children and these people will not be given a license to have children or permitted to have children. All responsible and reasonable citizens will agree that a limited loss of Constitutional freedom will be necessary to protect our children from the abuse monsters. 

Removing God and Christianity From Society

Perhaps you are amazed and confused by the accelerating assault on God and Christianity in the good old USA, I know I am. Just yesterday, The Daughters Of The American Revolution (DAR) issued directives that forbid any mention of God or Jesus in any of their documents, songs, speeches or official dealings. Amazing! The American Revolution was all about freedom of religion and the founders put God and Jesus into every aspect of the new American Government, and now the DAR refutes the foundation of their, and our, heritage. On must wonder, what is really going on here.

            It has occurred to me, this get God and Jesus out of American society is not random or an uncoordinated set of actions that are occurring. There is obviously something else going on, and I think I have discovered what it is.

Our founders put in God into our Government because they come to believe in the teaching of Marcus Cicero, who in his 51BC Treatise On The Laws, provided the rational notion that God and Nature provides the basic for Human Rights and Justice. Further, the Founders studied the Second Treatise On Civil Government, by John Locke (1632-1704), which codified Cicero’s thoughts into a rational roadmap for establishment of an exceptional Government. You see, your Founders were truly educated men.

The US Constitution is the form and function of our exceptional government and makes legal the notion that our rights and justice comes from God and nature, and man or Government cannot take them away. Thus, establishing the basic principal of Cicero and Locke that Human rights and justice come from God and they are inalienable rights and justice that government or man cannot alter.

It has finally occurred to those wishing to totally control all human behavior, in order to instill their notion of civil justice and the ultimate utopia, God and the doctrine of Christianity must be removed before they can gain complete control. This is why there is now a coordinated effort to remove God and Jesus from American society. For further proof, it was also yesterday that a Professor made news in the New York Times, to wit; (paraphrasing) It is time to tear up the US Constitution that was written by a bunch of old White Men and write a new, progressive Constitution.

Taxes Are Power

This post relates, in part, to the so-called Fiscal Cliff and the contrived crisis to force the country to vote for more taxes, and more power. We deserve what we get.
I hope by now, all of American Citizens fully realize that Taxes are Power, i.e., more taxes equals more power, less taxes equals less power. If the body citizen fails to understand this axiom, then we all will see power continued to be consolidated within the Federal Government at the expense of individual freedom.

So what is the inscrutable way the Government can raise taxes and increase their power and still have the body citizen go along with it?

Why you spend, spend and keep on spending until the national debt threatens to destroy the country which the citizens will then demand taxes be raised to save the country, thats how.

Good Lord, we are so dumb that it staggers the imagination.

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Social Lab Rats

From Mr. Mark Levin:

November 7, 2012

MARK LEVIN: We conservatives, we do not accept

bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny - period. We will

not negotiate the terms of our economic and political

servitude - period. We will not abandon our child to a dark

and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to

the legacy we inherited from every single future generation

in this country. We will not accept social engineering by

politicians and bureaucrats who treat us like lab rats,

rather than self-sufficient human beings. There are those

in this country who choose tyranny over liberty. They do

not speak for us, 57 million of us who voted against this

yesterday, and they do not get to dictate to us under our

Constitution.

We are the alternative. We will resist. We're not going to

surrender to this. We will not be passive. We will not be

compliant in our demise. We're not good losers. You better

believe we're sore losers! A good loser is a loser forever.

Now I hear we're called 'purists.' Conservatives are called

purists. The very people who keep nominating moderates,

now call us purists the way the left calls us purists. Yeah,

things like liberty, and property rights, individual

sovereignty, and the Constitution, and capitalism. We're

purists now. And we have to hear this crap from

conservatives, or pseudo-conservatives, Republicans.

Daylight Saving Time

 

After Daylight Saving Time was explained to the old Indian, the old Indian said:

Only the Government could believe you can cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it on the bottom of the blanket, and then have a longer blanket.

Before The Cock Crowed

Peter denied Christ three times before the Cock crowed, and Christ was crucified for man’s sin.

Obama denied his Ambassador three times before the Cock crowed, and the Ambassador was killed for 40 days of reelection politics.

Ronald L Clark announces publication of his latest book, Libertas And Thunderbolt, ISBN-13:9781455751214

A brief Synopsis follows:

Carl Sagan, Steven Hawking, and others, are well known for their theory of why we do not see abundant intelligent extraterrestrial life all around us. The reason being, that once intelligent life discovers technology, that technology is used in a self-destructive orgy that brings about the extinction of all intelligent life within reach. So, when one looks out into the Cosmos to search for intelligent life, all life that once was there, no longer exists, save mankind. This theory, of course, has profound implications for us stranded here on spaceship Earth, especially as we watch in horror as our technology grinds out bigger and more powerful weapons of mass destruction every day. This book is a flight of fancy that supposes our Creators (with profound apologies to those who do not believe we have Creators) have undertaken a mission to save Humankind from blowing themselves to kingdom come just like all of the other "Intelligent" life has already done well before mankind began to build parking lots, shopping malls, and H-Bombs. Our Creators have names, and their names are Yahweh and Asherah. So come take an interstellar ride with Yahweh and Asherah as they struggle to help Humankind become an exception to the doomsday theories of Sagan and Hawking.

This book can be purchased at any book store or on line at any book retailer. I have included links to Amazon and Barns and Noble:

http://www.amazon.com/Libertas-Thunderbolt-Ronald-L-Clark/dp/1457512416/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344175068&sr=1-1&keywords=libertas+and+thunderbolt

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/libertas-and-thunderbolt-ronald-l-clark/1112113130?ean=9781457512414

Ron Clark

Vesting Redux

Please bear with me as I once again post the piece on the insidious use of VESTING as a means to make Government Programs permanent and unstoppable. I have come upon a quote from President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the implementation of Social Security Program that proves the charge that these programs were developed with vesting as a fundelmental and important part of their structure in order to make them unstoppable. President Roosevelt quote, to wit:
"Those taxes (Social Security payroll taxes) were never a problem of economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those payroll taxes (Social Security Taxes) there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no dammed politician can ever scrap my Social Security Program. Those taxes aren't a matter of economics, they're straight politics."
Quote source: http://www.ssa.gov/history/Gulick.html

Why We Can’t Win At The Ballot Box

You say you want to cut Big Government down to size and regain our freedoms by using the ballot box? Good luck with that. It can’t be done and here is the reason why. VESTING.

That’s right fellow citizens, VESTING. What is vesting? Vesting is when you invest your money, time or other good and valuable resources into a program and then expect a return on your investment. Let me give you a real life example of how our elected Government uses Vesting as an insidious device to perpetuate and expand power by creating basically social programs that cannot ever be stopped or curtailed because of vesting.

Let’s take Social Security as an example and here is how it works. You start a safety net program for old age and pass a law that says you must participate in the program by paying taxes to support the program. Viola, you are now part of the program and you can’t get out without losing all of the money you have paid in even if you could. After time passes you realize that you have paid a great deal of money into the system and you then demand that the program be continued in order that you receive your fair share of what you have invested into the system. In short, you have become VESTED regardless if you wanted to be or not, and the program can never, never ever, be terminated because the citizens have become VESTED in the program.

It only gets better. The Government keeps on expanding the program (Social Security) into other areas and forces you to pay more taxes because you can’t or won’t get out of the program due to VESTING. I bet most people don’t realize that Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Aid to Dependant Children, etc. were all enacted under the Social Security Act. Insidious. Now multiply all of the others program that use vesting to perpetuate themselves and you have a situation where the citizens of this country will never allow anyone to stop these programs because of VESTING. For these programs to be fair, they should include an “Op In” clause so that if you want the Government to run your healthcare or retirement, then you must Op In into the program and only you and others who Op In to pay the taxes to support the program. I am now laughing out loud! You should live so long. I’m sorry Brothers and Sisters, you can’t fix our Big Government via the ballot box, it was designed to be unstoppable.

Green

I feel compelled to address the ongoing Orwellian speak being accepted by intelligent people everywhere. The subject is the acceptance of the "Green" label for things that minimize the release of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide).
For example: By shutting down coal burning power plants, we will reduce the amount of CO2 released and thereby encourage ways of producing energy that does not release CO2. These new ways of producing energy, sans CO2, is the "Green" way to produce energy.
Incredible; have we completely lost our collective intelligence?
Flora, all plant green things, require CO2 as their life's blood in order to be green. More CO2, more green things. More green things, more O2 for Humans and other animals as a byproduct.

Little Girls

If it wasn't for little girls, the economy would collapse.

Gas Price

I guess being cynical nowadays means you are way more right than wrong.
Take the gas price surge.
Here is a cynical look at why the current spiking gasoline prices could be occurring
What if the oil companies have had a belly full of Obama and his desire to force gasoline price up in order to promote a "green" agenda. So perhaps, the companies are conspiring to jack up the gas prices themselves in order that people will blame BHO for wrecking their economic lives.
You know, a proactive approach to ensure BHO looses the election because it looks like the Repubs are going to screw up this election big time.
I'm just saying

A Conflict Of Visions

Perhaps you have been as confused as I by what is going on in the Political Arena and society in general nowadays. I am confused because I refuse to believe that the root cause of our loss of freedoms and the decline of morality in our society is because the powerful people who are orchestrating the loss of freedom and morality decline are doing it because they are inherently evil. Perhaps I’m an eternal and naive optimist, but I feel for the most part the powerful behind-the-scenes movers and shakers, along with their compatriots in the Governing Class, are not really evil. I like to believe they are not evil because they simply believe that what they are doing is because they sincerely believe that their vision for the country is the best way for all people. They believe and do these things even if they use deceit and power to force people to adhere to their vision. A fine example of, The Ends Justify The Means.

The problem with this, of course, is that evil is never done in the name of evil it is always done in the name of glorious good for all, regardless if the Do-Gooders are evil or not These people may not be inherently evil, but they sure as hell enjoy the power that comes from enforcing their vision. All of which means, free people are no longer free, and are forced to give up their freedom and hard earned treasure by those in power, for the good of all, of course.

I have found some clarity to all of this by reading a book that goes a long way in understanding why these people are doing what they are doing. The book, A conflict Of Visions, by Thomas Sowell:

http://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Visions-Ideological-Political-Struggles/dp/0465002056/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330702451&sr=1-1

posits that the reason for today’s political schism is because people have a conflict of vision on how society should operate. The difference in visions being:

Constrained and Unconstrained Visions.

Constrained vision meaning, man is born with certain inalienable God given rights along with a hard-wired notion of what is “right” and “wrong” developed from experience generated from countless generations of social living. All of these things then form the inherent nature of man. What this means is that Government must accommodate the fact that man is constrained by these things and must not seek to change the nature of man. The US Constitution is the incorporation of this vision.

Unconstrained Vision meaning, the nature of man is not fixed but is malleble and capable of being changed by superior knowledge and benevolent intent, for the betterment of all. Of course, only those with superior knowledge know what is best for all. Socialist Governance is the incorporation of this vision.

Reading this book will be well worth the while if you are interested in understanding what is going on.

Hubble Far Field Cosmos Video

http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm

Required viewing when one believes how important one is.

A discussion:

Very good video, indeed. I follow this stuff with total awe. I have always wanted someone to point the Hubble at a point in far field, record the scene, and then point the Hubble 180 degrees in far field, record the scene, and then determine if the scene is of the same objects in reverse (like a reverse scene in a mirror). My problem is that the objects observed in the Cosmos are always analyzed as if every thing is traveling in a straight line. This defies logic because nothing in nature is linear or straight line. So making measurements of distance as a straight line is flawed if the Cosmos is a contained sphere and Einstein proved that gravity refracts light and all other fields for that matter.

Mitt Romney, AKA Gordon Gekko

I think the Repubs are being suckered. They are being told that Romney is the only one that can beat BHO. The Dems can't wait to portray Romney as Gordon Gekko, because he is. He is not a Capitalist, he is a Money Changer that makes money off of money. Capitalism is when you invest your money in Productive Enterprise and that enterprise makes a product that people buy and all profit.

Romney makes his money by wrecking existing business, and making money off of the parts. Don't forget the issue of the OWS thing is the Fat Cat Money Changers and that issue is supported by a wide majority of Americans, and the Dems will leverage this fact to victory.

Romney is the last person who can beat BHO, IMO.

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Hey Daddy, Where Do Wars Come From?

I think that I am as guilty as the next fellow in being unable to see how important some things are because they are with us constantly and so they disappear by being familiar. For example, the intelligentsia in America, and indeed the world, keep promoting bigger and more powerful Government as the only way to prevent war and manage the constant strife amongst all people. They could not be more wrong. Government alone causes war, and the bigger and more powerful the Government, the bigger the war and the greater the strife. Free people do not engage in war, Government coerces free people into war. Free people may squabble and fight amongst themselves, but they do not engage in full scale war.
And this leads me say once again how increditible it is that the Founders understood this and created a very limited Government. However, as we all know, that Government has grown so large and instrusive, that it may be impossible to cut it back down to Constitutional size.
So, the answer to the question, Where does wars come from, is, they come from Governments.

I'm Just Saying

It is a sad commentary about our beloved Nation that the reality may well be that President Bill Clinton, more of a comic book character than a statesman, is probably the best President the country has been able to muster up in quite a while.

Free Markets

Free Markets

By now most citizens have become aware of the so-called “Occupy Wall Street” movement. The movement appears to be more of a protest movement, like the Vietnam War protest movement, than a political movement. Suspicion exists that skilled and unseen power-Meisters and seasoned organizers are using the dupes, naïve, and frustrated members of society, to promote a hidden agenda by orchestrating the latest movement. The suspicion is encouraged by the “spontaneous” global organization of the protests that is taking place. Time will eventually expose the real agenda, and uncover the hidden organizers as well, if they are indeed behind the Occupy Wall Street and global movements.

The Tea Party is another so called movement and most citizens are aware that this movement is basically a political movement that protests big government, taxes and intrusion into free peoples lives. The Tea Party has survived extensive investigation that has tried to uncover if the movement is being orchestrated by hidden power-Meisters and seasoned organizers. To date, no such orchestration has been uncovered. In other words, the Tea Party is a grass-roots movement of frustrated members of society that seeks to change the political structure of the country.

Other than these two basic differences between the movements, could there be a nexus supporting both movements? Of course there is.

The nexus is the universal frustration of all citizens, and of every political stripe, that its citizens are no longer controlling society, but rather, society it is being increasingly controlled by:

Pick One.

a. An out-of-control professional political class that craves power like an addict craves narcotics.

b. Greedy Moneychangers who are sucking up all of the wealth of the country for their personal use.

c. Intellectual Elites that seeks to force all people of the world to join their vision of an “Age of Aquarius” utopia.

d. Knuckle-dragging religious nut jobs that want to take the world back to the dark ages.

e. Variations of all of the above.

Guess what? A democracy enabled by a free marketplace will resolve most of the current citizen frustration with society. Oh my, that’s what out Constitution mandates. Problem is, a regulated and directed free marketplace is an oxymoron, and is what we have today. Oh by the way, the regulated and controlled free marketplace we have today is unconstitutional, but who cares? One has to laugh when the Occupy Wall Street brainiacs sing out that the free market is running amok and is the cause of all of our problems. Little do they realize that the free marketplace is “us” and is the ultimate control they supposedly seek for their lives. Lord help us all.

War and Non-war

This is a piece I did in response to a question concerning assassinating terrorists.

The real problem, as I see it, all started when the Professional Politicians in the "take no resposibility for anything" Congress refused to adhere to it's Constitutional requirements and formally declare war when we are fighting a war. I think it all started with the "police action" Korean war continuing today with the "war on terror". None of this legal nonsense would be under discusssion if Congress will declare war when we send our sons and daughters off to fight in war, regardless what you call it. The Orwell quote," Only an intellectual would believe this nonsense" applies here.

This also means the "War Powers" act is illegal and is an attempt to put lipstick on a pig by not requireing Congress to be responsible for declaring war. All in all, a sorry situation, made worst by Americans citizens getting into inane auguments about trying "combatants" in civil courts when we are fighting an undeclared war. This also means if the President sends the armed services into battle without congress delaring war, He should be removed from office at once by the Congress. Good luck with that.

When we are fighting a legally declared war, combatants are subject to the rules of war, not the Constitution

THEIR MAN MITCH

Let me see if I got this all straight, Repub Movers & Shakers come to Indiana and talk at length with Our Man Mitch, after which, My Man Mitch sez, my wife doesn't want the stress and strain of saving our country from certain destruction, so I'm will not be a candidate for President of the good old US of A. Instead, Governator Mitch sez, he was elected by the good folks of Indiana to save Indiana from complete ruin and he just wants to finish the job, so no time for National politics.

Still with me here?

While none of us was a fly on the wall when the Repub Movers & Shakers had their sit-down with Their Man Mitch, one can only assume they were not discussing what would be the latest deep-fried concoction at the Indiana State Fair. Perhaps, I'm just saying, they were (wait for it).............. developing a strategy to have Reluctant Man Mitch drafted as a savior of the Republic when all of the current Repub Yahoo candidates had beat the crap out of each other to an extent that none of them could be elected dog catcher, let alone President.

Problem is that none-candidate, Reluctant Man Mitch, would have to have to state his National Political positions without the messy primary food fight thing. What to do, what to do. Wait, I know, he, National Man Mitch, can write a book to be released at just the right time and go on national TV telling everyone and everybody about how to save the Republic from ruin by trusting, of all things, the Americn People. And the book (Keeping the Republic, Saving America by Trusting Americans) can't be about his being born in Pennsylvania and his developing childhood days in Tennessee and Georigia before coming to Indiana when he was 11 years old which allowed him to develope that good old Indiana work ethic and stern regard for the truth. Oh no, it would be about, golly, National Political Positions.

I am so giddy with anticipation that I can hardly wait to see how the Repub Movers & Shakers will wamp-up the Draft "America's Man Mitch" campaign to save the Republic at just the right time to get Reluctant Man Mitch the Repub nomination for President. I sure hope Mrs. Mitch doesn't catch on to what's going on, because if she does, she is really going to be some kind of Indiana mad.

But then again, I could be wrong about all of this. But I bet my cut of the Stimulas Package that I'm more right than wrong.

Happy Days

There have been some who have not caught the full significance of the Song "Happy Days Are Here Again" at the end of the piece about the Blob.

Back when the depression was going and America was suffering badly, Franklin D. Roosevelt mounted a Presidential campaign that featured the song, Happy Days Are Here Again" with vague promises of a transformation of American into a place where the Government would take care of the people. He was elected with "Happy Days Are Here Again" ringing in everyone hearts and ears. This was the start of real socialism in America and if you are so inclined to research the era, you will discover everything that FDR did during his years as President, made the depression and suffering much worse. The depression was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity (never let a crisis go to waste) to gain power for the Federal Government to implement policy that would never be accepted during normal times. His nanny Government also was responsible for extending the depression in America while the rest of the world recovered quite rapidly.

In other words, it was WWII that ended the American depression, not the entitlement, utopian policies of FDR. There is even strong evidence that FDR made decisions that forced the US into war in order to recover from the depression with his socialism policies firmly in place.

I know, not pretty, but mostly true.

The "Happy Days Are Here Again" theme during the FDR era is the same utopian Flim Flam that people ate up then and is the same as is the "Hope and Change" utopian nonsense that gullible people are gobbling up today and believe the Government can create jobs and take care of them. The point being, that the same disastrous results are occurring as in FDR's day and one must wonder if all of these unnecessary wars nowadays are an attempt to recover as FDR used WWII to recover. (Sorry, the wars nowadays are not big enough to effect the desired change.)

There really is no free lunch, someone must pay and we are now paying with our treasure,freedoms and jobs.

Clark

The BLOB That Ate The Economy

The Blob That Ate The Economy

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has morphed into a job-killing machine.

The Justice Department is a Constitutional Smashing, Freedom Bending, job-killing machine.

The Professional Politician Congress is a Happy-Go-Lucky job-killing machine.

Federal Laws are the gears and wheels for the Federal job-killing machine.

The Digital/Computer/Robotic age is upon us and is a job-killing machine.

The Federal Reserve is Yankee Dollar, reserve currency, fiat printing job-killing machine.

The Federal Government is the ubiquitous BLOB that eats the economy for lunch.

Ya say you need a job Bunkie?

Feeling a little down lately?

Can't pay your mortgage or afford gasoline for the heap?

Can't believe a loaf of bread costs $3.00 and your Union is negotiating for lower wages?

Is that what's has your stomach churnin' and turnin' like Elvis Presley's hips?

So who needs a job anyway? Obammy will take care of you and yours.

Come on now Bunkie, off the meat and on the feet.

Sing along and all of your troubles will fade away like last week's paycheck.

http://wn.com/Happy_Days_Are_Here_Again-Leo

SCOPING OUT THE DEBT PROBLEM

The Wall Street Journal reports today that there is more to the debt problem than out-of-control Federal Government spending.
During the 1990s, Household debt was 84% of annual income.
In 2007, height of the boom, the Household debt was 127% of annual income.
Today, the Household debt is 112% of annual income mainly because of bank writeoff of bad debt.
It would require households to pay off $3.3 Trillion to get back to the 1990s 84% level.
First off, where and what kind of money was used to enable household debt?
How will households ever payoff oustanding debt when real wages keep declining and most need to borrow just to keep heads above water?
How does the household debt relate to the federal debt limit debate?
There are so many questions, so little time.

Casual Obseravtions

Casual Observations

· The mystery of life is the only mystery science can never solve.

· Political speech means exactly opposite what the words say.

· Watching the morning light add color to your life while peacefully in bed beside your loving wife/husband is as good as it can possibly get.

· Religion can serve both despots and the righteous alike.

· Pretty girls rarely evolve into gracious women.

· Macho boys rarely evolve into substantial men.

· Money is inversely proportional to happiness.

· Money is the least important aspect of the education process.

· Money is only an enabler of commerce.

· Money is a poor indicator of character.

· Culture can explain everything Human.

· The beautiful notes of a Red Cardinal and the sordid words of a Rapper both evoke strong emotions.

· Lush grass requires much effort while weeds are no sweat.

· Many pay for what they want and beg for what they need.

· Morality represents the way that people would like the world to work while economics represents how it actually works. Steven D. Levitt

· Civility is not a sign of weakness.

· Vulgarity is not a sign of powerfulness.

· Cleanliness is sexy.

· The size of an automobile is inversely proportional to the size of the owner.

· Age related loss of hearing is a blessing.

· Clothes make the man but makeup hides a woman.

· Chance favors the prepared.

· Dress, art and music are the truest reflection of culture.

· A determined woman is harder to deal with than a resolute man.

· People really don't believe we are made of the same stuff that the universe is made of.

· Drinking beer makes you fart but drinking wine make you look smart.

· Economic conditions may wax and wane but business at the Hemorrhoid Center is always booming.

· Dogs love to smell other dog's butts while humans love to kiss other people's butts.

· I-Pads and Droids are more advanced than Star Trek communicators.

· People who smoke cigarettes often limit their fat and sugar intake for health reasons.

· Beautiful and enlightened people are recognizable by the water bottles they always carry.

· Liberals are called liberals because they are liberal with other people's freedoms, money and property.

· Conservatives are called conservatives because they try to keep what they have earned.

· Relationship augments can be identified because they always begin with "I" and end with "We".

· The credibility of an offering is inversely proportional to the number of itty-bitty

little words used.

· The offering plate is always passed before the sermon.

· With rare exception, the cover is the book.

· If I have a 50/50 chance of making the right choice, 90% of the time I will make the wrong choice.

· Regardless of the course I sail, the wind is always in my face.

· The faster I run the further away I get.

· Available time is proportional to age.

· Activity is often confused with work.

· Complexity is a device used to confuse.

· The idle often engage in argument.

· Golf tests one's ability to count strokes.

· I'm through observing now.

HOPE & CHANGE

Vesting

Why We Can’t Win At The Ballot Box

You say you want to cut Big Government down to size and regain our freedoms by using the ballot box? Good luck with that. It can’t be done and here is the reason why. VESTING. That’s right fellow citizens, VESTING. What is vesting? Vesting is when you invest your money, time or other good and valuable resources into a program and then expect a return on your investment. Let me give you a real life example of how our elected Government uses Vesting as an insidious device to perpetuate and expand power by creating basically social programs that cannot ever be stopped or curtailed because of vesting. Let’s take Social Security as an example and here is how it works. You start a safety net program for old age and pass a law that says you must participate in the program by paying taxes to support the program. Viola, you are now part of the program and you can’t get out without losing all of the money you have paid in even if you could. After time passes you realize that you have paid a great deal of money into the system and you then demand that the program be continued in order that you receive your fair share of what you have invested into the system. In short, you have become VESTED regardless if you wanted to be or not, and the program can never, never ever, be terminated because the citizens have become VESTED in the program. It only gets better. The Government keeps on expanding the program (Social Security) into other areas and forces you to pay more taxes because you can’t or won’t get out of the program due to VESTING. I bet most people don’t realize that Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Aid to Dependant Children, etc. were all enacted under the Social Security Act. Insidious. Now multiply all of the others program that use vesting to perpetuate themselves and you have a situation where the citizens of this country will never allow anyone to stop these programs because of VESTING. For these programs to be fair, they should include an “Op In” clause so that if you want the Government to run your healthcare or retirement, then you must Op In into the program and only you and others who Op In to pay the taxes to support the program. I am now laughing out loud! You should live so long. I’m sorry Brothers and Sisters, you can’t fix our Big Government via the ballot box, it was designed to be unstoppable.

Hooray, Hooray, They've Saved The Day!

Hooray, Hooray, They’ve saved the day!

The Grand Old Elephant and Common Man Donkey embraced, and amid a mighty roar, bombastic hoopla, and with a final historic grunt, brought forth a Gnat.

Hooray, Hooray, They’ve saved the day!

Same Sex Marriage

I never thought intelligent people would be required to debate the fundelmental aspects of Marriage anymore than I thought there would be a necessity of debating what makes males and females physically different. But here we are, forced by a powerful minority that thinks the world revolves around their sexuality and insisting that all other people and society must change to suit them. If this powerful minority can force society to change against its will, one can only speculate what other behavior, that took untold generations to determine as deferential to society, will also insist on being made civil.
It seems to me to be unecessary to state it is SOCIETY that has determined that marriage between a man and a woman needs to be encouraged because the resulting nuclear family is the bedrock upon which civilization rests. Same sex marriage is an invalid argument because neither you or I created the Human Race and required different gender as the means to procreate it's people. In other words, gravity dictates we fall down, we cannot fall up regardless if a self-centered and powerful minority insists that we must fall up. Why we even have such sophomoric discussions about "Gay Marriage" in the first place is beyond me. The worst part of this manufactured debate is that somehow the "Gay" community (aided and abetted by the entire length and breath of Media, academia and entertainment industry) will foster the label of bigotry and assigning hate upon people who only support society authorizing marriage between a man and a woman. Most people, including me, believe sexual preference is a personal matter, not an official society sanctioned matter, but yet we are accused of being hateful and ignorant by not supporting same sex marriage. I'm for living and let live and if same sex people want to join together I say more power to them, but they can no more be married than you can fall up.

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

Daylight Saving Time.

When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said, "Only the Government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."

UNIONS

Present day Unions are a victim of modern times. Back when the industrial revolution was getting going and most industry was domestic, unions were needed to battle the robber barons and secure a decent wage and working conditions for labor. Times change. Not only did unions become powerful, they also became corrupt. (Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.) Then came the digital & computer revolution. As I have written before (The Coming Age Of The Borg) there is far more American jobs (labor) lost to computerized automation and industrial robots than all of illegal immigration, and moving factories overseas combined. In other words, the basic feed stock of unions (labor) is decreasing at an ever increasing rate resulting in less and less membership. So union corruption, industrial automation and globalization has delivered domestic unions a triple whammy.

So unions must do something in order to survive. Viola, become international to address globalization and organize the only remaining American labor pool that is still growing, i.e., Service Industry labor and Government Service labor. Organizing Government labor is the best for domestic unions because there is no labor competition and wages are guaranteed by taxes with no competition for wages either. This situation is corruption nirvana, i.e., make law requiring Government to withhold union dues and then use union dues to fund professional politicians and make them beholding to organized labor: Corruption Nirvana. By going international, unions can not only address globalization, they can become a political force to be reckoned with, as we are now seeing.

I know, not a pretty picture.

Political Market Equilibrium

THE TALK SUPPLY EXCEEDS THE DEMAND.

Freedom Versus Socialism

Freedom Versus Socialism

Have you ever been surprised when a subject you were familiar with and understood reasonably well all of a sudden was crystallized into a new awareness and understanding by some words someone spoke on a different subject? It has happened to me a number of times and it just happened again and I thought I would share the experience with you. The subject is the political philosophy of Socialism and the exceptional American Constitutional government that ensues freedom of the individual to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Regardless of your political persuasion and political philosophies, even if you don’t have any, the USA has been slowly moving from a nation of full individual freedoms to a socialistic governance that has a central governmental political authority directing more and more of our individual lives, for the betterment of all, of course. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Supplemental Security Income, ad infinitum, are a few examples of socialism’s slow and steady march to dominance within our society.

Even if you buy into the hokum about helping people who can’t help themselves, the truth is that Socialism is a form of Government that forces people to behave in ways that are not necessarily in ones best self-interest, but rather, to behave in ways to benefit all as determined by a central political authority. I think we all reasonably understand the concept and the distinction between individual liberty and socialism. But now, carefully read the words of Wamditanka (Big Eagle) of the Santee Sioux, circa 1860s:

“The whites were always trying to make the Indians give up their life and live like white men- go to farming, work hard and do as they did- and the Indians did not know how to do that, and did not want to anyway… If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted, and it was the same way with many Indians.”

We all know full well how the free Indians were treated and destroyed by the white man, for the good of all, of course. The elegant lament of Big Eagle did not stop the white man from changing the Indian any more than the lament of free Americans can stop the socialists from transforming the society of America, for the good of all, of course. After all, elegant though the lament may be, it is powerless to stop a determined force that somehow knows what is best for all.

The Coming Age of the Borg, Redux

First there was John Henry matching muscle power with a steam machine. Then we had Garry Kasparov matching wits with IBM's Deep Blue in a thinking contest over a chess board. And now we have Ken Jennings and Brad Ritter matching knowledge with IBM's Watson over the Jeopardy board. We all know what the outcome is going to be. And what this means is we lose more jobs to computers and automation that all of the outsourcing and current job killers combined. The American deep thinkers had better consider what is happening with computers and automation causing a great social change and formulate policies to deal with it or we will become irreverent.

Thats right John Henry, Garry Kasparov, Ken Jennings, Brad Ritter, Mr. & Mrs. America and all the ships at sea:

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,

YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

Divine Science

Divine Science

Perhaps you have read my rants about science and how science has somehow become the de facto sole source of truth. Well we now have another instance of criminal science being perpetrated and the really sad thing about it is that most people, and certainly not the mass media, don’t seem to care all that much about it.

The criminal science I’m talking about here directly resulted in the unnecessary death of innocent children in addition to suffering unnecessary pain, and in some cases, permanent disfigurement. What I am talking about here is one Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his published findings in Lancet that our modern children’s vaccines cause autism. The so-called scientific study was manufactured by Dr. Wakefield for, are you ready for this, money. Lawyers paid Wakefield some $674,000 to create the fraudulent study in order to provide a scientific basis to sue vaccine manufactures so that they could make lots and lots of money. I can’t begin to imagine a punishment severe enough to serve justice for this despicable crime against not only children, but against science as well.

I'm Just Saying

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ETFs. OMG, HERE WE GO AGAIN

ETFs. OMG, Here We Go Again

It was announced today that ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) have now reached $1 Trillion dollars. Please take the time to research ETFs and if you can filter out most of the esoteric BS, you will find that ETFs are gussied-up derivatives. Brothers and Sisters, ETFs are not Capitalism; they are simply another way to make money off of money. Capitalism is when you invest your hard earned money into a business that is engaged in productive enterprise and the business makes a profit by producing something that people need or want. This adds to an economy. MONEY is not an economy. Money only enables commerce that makes it easier to grow an economy. Making money off of money cannot grow an economy and the growth of ETFs will be the next bubble that can destroy our fragile economy. Yes Gordon Gekko, greed is still alive and well.

We Can't Win At The Ballot Box

You say you want to cut Big Government down to size and regain our freedoms by using the ballot box? Good luck with that. It can’t be done and here is the reason why. VESTING. That’s right fellow citizens, VESTING. What is vesting? Vesting is when you invest your money, time or other good and valuable resources into a program and then expect a return on your investment. Let me give you a real life example of how our elected Government uses Vesting as an insidious device to perpetuate and expand power by creating basically social programs that cannot ever be stopped or curtailed because of vesting. Let’s take Social Security as an example and here is how it works. You start a safety net program for old age and pass a law that says you must participate in the program by paying taxes to support the program. Viola, you are now part of the program and you can’t get out without losing all of the money you have paid in even if you could. After time passes you realize that you have paid a great deal of money into the system and you then demand that the program be continued in order that you receive your fair share of what you have invested into the system. In short, you have become VESTED regardless if you wanted to be or not, and the program can never, never ever, be terminated because the citizens have become VESTED in the program. It only gets better. The Government keeps on expanding the program (Social Security) into other areas and forces you to pay more taxes because you can’t or won’t get out of the program due to VESTING. I bet most people don’t realize that Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Aid to Dependant Children, etc. were all enacted under the Social Security Act. Insidious because those who don't even pay into the system are now VESTED. Now multiply all of the others program that use vesting to perpetuate themselves and you have a situation where the citizens of this country will never allow anyone to stop these programs because of VESTING. For these programs to be fair, they should include an “Op In” clause so that if you want the Government to run your healthcare or retirement, then you must Op In into the program and only you and others who Op In to pay the taxes to support the program. I am now laughing out loud! You should live so long. I’m sorry Brothers and Sisters, you can’t fix our Big Government via the ballot box, our big Government was designed to be unstoppable.

Psst, Wanna Know a Secret?

Wanna know a secret? A secret that multi-billion dollar Pharmaceuticals Companies don’t want you to know? They don’t want you to know because if you knew, they couldn’t sell you a $5.00 pill that requires a $6.00 pill to address side effects the first pill caused and on and on. Ya know what I’m talking about here, don’t you? I’m talking about a way to prevent the common cold, that’s what. That’s right, it works every time and only costs pennies. Alright, stick with me now, think back to previous winters when it turned cold and your house got really dry inside and all of a sudden you started blowing small amounts of blood into your Kleenex. What happens is that the capillaries inside your nose are very close to the surface, and when it gets dry outside, the inside your nose starts to dry out too, exposing the capillaries and causing them to leak blood. You now have exposed blood vessels inside your nose that will permit the direct introduction of germs into your blood stream. So when you breathe in through your nose, you are providing an avenue for cold and others viruses that are in the air a way to get directly into your blood stream. Viruses and germs that have a direct path into your blood stream will ensure infection. This nonsense of washing your hands to prevent virus introduction into your mouth is a bunch of hooey. This is not how most colds are caught. Most colds are caught because the virus has a way to get into the blood stream (inside the nose) and directly causing a cold infection. What to do? Every morning grab a Q-Tip and dab a generous amount of Neosporin on it and then put it inside your nose to thoroughly spread it around in there. Do it for each side of your nose. What happens is that the petroleum base of the Neosporin will reverse the dryness inside your nose and thereby permit the openings in the capillaries that are leaking blood a chance to heal and no longer be an avenue for virus to infiltrate into the blood stream. This simple step will prevent most viruses from gaining an avenue to infect you. Also, the antibiotic compounds in Neosporin will kill any bad guys that are still in there. Rather simple and oh so logical. Try it, it really works, and you will enjoy a cold free winter without all of the colds remedies and misery.

MONEY, MONEY,MONEY

Bloomberg News reports that the Federal Reserve has "bought" $1.7 Trillion dollars of Federal Government Securities (Bonds) through March of 2010. The Federal Reserve will buy an additional $600 Billion of Federal Government securities through next June of 2011. Combine these "purchases" with some $300 Billion of Mortage bonds the Federal Reserve has already "purchased" and you have a reported $2.6 Trillion dollars added into the economy. Please bear in mind that these amounts are what has been reported by the Federal Reserve. The books of the Federal Reserved are closed to the public so we really have no knowledge of any other Federal Reserve "purchases". To gain perspective to this number, I just paid $2.88 per gallon of gasoline. $2.6 Trillion is:
$2,600,000,000,000 and will buy a lot of gasoline. It's unclear what this "created out of clear air" money means, but it can't be good, can it? For example, the Federal Government issues a Bond for X amount of dollars and those dollars go to pay for highway construction or whatever. That money goes into the economy as wages paid and materials are bought. If the Federal Reserve buys the Government debt bonds they are in essence creating the money that goes into the economy. Bear in mind this money was not created by productive enterprise so it has no value other than the value assumed by combining with real money and thereby reducing the value of all dollars. So what happens when when the Bonds bought by the Federal Reserve mature? Does the Federal Government pay back the Federal Reserve back with tax dollars? Does anyone really know what is happening here?

2010 Election, Cities Versus The Rest of the Country

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this election is the patently obvious Cities versus the rest of the country outcome. Look at the 2010 election Red/Blue map. Don't underestimate the decades long development of the entitlement constituency among the mass population of the urban areas by the professional politicians. In other words, political and constitutional philosophy means little to the entitlement electorate and the historical schism between the Cities and the rest of the country is now fully realized within the body politic. This is the same schism that brought Rome to it's demise along with many other civilizations throughout history. The Tea Party movement and other political movements must understand this city/country schism in order to be effective in achieving political power.

HIGHSCHOOLS

HIGHSCHOOLS 1957 vs 2010
Scenario 1:Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack. 1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2010 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school. 1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies. 2010 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students. 1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again. 2010 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4:Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt. 1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman. 2010 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5:Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school. 1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock. 2010 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:Pedro fails high school English. 1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.. 2010 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed. 1957 - Ants die. 2010 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him. 1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing. 2010 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
(Thanks to Mr. B. Franklin for this post.)